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The Huron Expositor, 1892-02-19, Page 10our insolence," he said, "can serve no object. It is useless to say that it may ex- acerbate the wound you have already in- flicted upon the family feeling and the family character and the family pride, a feeling, a character, and a pride, sir, which are not accustomed to be dragged through the humiliating dust of base intrigue, Harry relieved him from a dilemma for his lordahip pasitively saw no fitting Close to his period. "I beg your pardon, sir. Will you be so good as to tell me what I have done? I may be better able to accept your denunci- ations afterwards," The young:man was sore against his titled relative and thought he had a right to be. Lord liounea had publicly insulted .hirn, without a cause that he himself could trace, and the boy had no more idea of the mean- ing of his lordship's oratorical greeting than the man in the moon might have had. "Lady McCorquodale, said his lordship, suppressing himself by an heroic effort, "has lust returned here from the shop of Mr. Butterfield, a jeweller, in Conduit Street." The criminal turned a little white at this, and winced. He had thought it punishment enough for his past reckless- ness that he should have to pay something like a thousand pounds for a year or two's interest on three hundred, and he had not collated on the humiliation of discovery. It was bad enough to know that he had been a fool, and that he had so heavily crippled his own resources. "She has learned there," pursued his lordship, "that you are infamously in debt there, and that the objects you purchased there could have but one destination. You pretend, sir, to aspire to the hand of an innocent and charming young lady; you persist with a de- grading selfishness in standing in that young lady's way to wealth and an honour- able position; you profess yourself to be animated by a lofty and Quixotic attach- ment, and in the same hour with all this you pursue an intrigue with some vile and abominable woman whom you hide from the eyes of your fam;ly and of the world." "That is absolutely untrue, sir," Harry lowered. "Untrue!" thundered his lordship. "Iody McCorquodale and Mrs. Brotheria hate with their own eyes beheld the owl- donee of your infamy." The young man's blood boiled, but he re- strained hirneelf, and indeed the thought that they were stabbing at him through Inthia so sickened him a moment later that he had need rather to spur than to control himself. For a mere instant the thought assailed him that the construction• Lord Hounes put upon his purpose was manu- factured for the family uses, but he himself was too natively justoninded to hold that suspicion long. He had to acltnit that the charge looked probable. ‘134tay I ask your lordship," he said, "to employ a little moderation? Will you do me the *tre justice to tell me of what you achnse me?" "Do me the favor then," returned his • lordship, "to respond categorically to toy enquiries. Are you, or are you not, indebt- ed to Mr. Butterfield?" "I am indebted," Harry answered, "to Mr. Butterfield in the sum of two thousand three hundred pounds. I have a constant assurance that be will willingly wait two years for the money, and in that time I expect to be able to pay him." "Indeed!" rejoined his lordship, with a sneer, which set Harry's blood racing and boiling again. "And now you vrill tell me with what other object than to pander to your own vices you made that extravagant purchase! For whom did you buy those jewels?" "I bought them for myself," he answered desperately. His lordship and Lady McCorquodale broke into a scornful laugh at this. "You expect us to believe that'!" her ladyship asked. "I expect to be believed in whatever I may say. I have a right to expect to be believed." "To whom did you give those jewels?" her ladyship asked. She was disposed to be &meter in her inquiries than hor brother. "You may as well tell us the creature's name at once, and put an end to this disgraceful scene" "This," said the boy desperately, "is a private matter of my own. I have given no man the right to hold 'such language as Lord Hounes has used to me. If it con- cerns you to know that I bought the jewels I have owned the fact already. When 1 fail honourably to pay for them 1 will eub- mit to anything you may choose to say to me." This was all very well in its way, and he was conscious of enough right on his side to allow him to be angry and disdainful at the charges brought against him, but the thought of Inthia came again. They would tell her this wicked. story, and would do their best to make her believe it. That cooled his courage, and. he -went on in an- other tune. "My dear Lady' McCorquodale, I give you my word. of honor, my most solemn and unreserved assurance, that your sus- picions concerning this affair arc utterly un- founded.' "And you bought the jewele?" said her ladyship. "1 bought the jewels." "To whom did you present them?" "I presented them to nobody." "Then you have them now?" "No_ They are no longer in my hande." "Where are they?" "That, with all due regard to your lady- ship, I must decline to say." 11:Eis lordship's mind was suddenly en- lightened, and if he had seen fit he could at that moment have hit the nail on the head at the first blow. But he was a bit of a diplomatist in his way, and preferred to nurse his. conclusion as a secret. He re- membered Harry's visit, and his urgent re- quest for a loan. The stones had been made away with, and the young man would not confess it. But since Providence had put in the family hands such an excellent means of separating him from Inthia as the surface story of the purchase afforded, he felt that it would he actually sinful not to use it. "Very well," her ladyship responded, rising and drawing her furs about her. "You understand, Mr. Wynne, that In- thia is my ward. I shall permit you to hold no further intercourse with her, and I desire that in future you will not ad- dress me or claim acquaintanceship in any way." "Be good enough," interjected his lord- ship, "to consider our knowledge of each other at an end. H you have any hope that your family will assist you in this shameful matter I take upon myself to say that to •whatever extremities ivou may be pushed; that hope is, and will remain, il- lusory." After this there was nothing left but to go, ;nth whatever dignity was possible, and the Pariah, thus solenanly ejected from the family circle, went away without a word. CHAPTER VI. Four or five hours had gone by before he staid properly he said to think of anything. He walked unconsciously straight back to his chambers, and sat there in his gloves and hat, sternly surveying a wild whirl of incoasequent and incongruous fancies. He was like one dazed by a heavy blow on the head, too stunned to feel his own pain. It oflourred`to him, often to think that he took eismationeisieressmismanrieene tnings very easily, ono once ne saut, with 1 Hamlet, that he was pigeon -livered, and lacked gall to make oppression bitter. He could not even find energy to be angry at the epithets Lord Hounes had hurled upon him, nor even — stranger still — to care 1 greatly about Inthia's wounded heart when 1 she should hear the calutnny. Bit by bit 1 the pain sharpened, the stunned feeling 1 cleared away, and his mind got to work I again. He began to think it inevitable that on the evidence against him Inthia must believe him guilty. He told himself thaanothing in the world should persuade 1 him that he was unfaithful tet him in a 1 thought, and out of his own loyalty he 1 brewed a cordial, warm and spiced enough to cheer his failing heart a little. Its effect was transitory ;- the evidence agair.st him was too strong. What could she do but believe that which everybody about her be- lieved? He was forbidden her presence, and he knew how, with the exception of Inthia everybody hailed his seeming down- fall. They would press Humphrey Frost and his millions upon her now, and perhaps, - in the sore desperation of her heart, she might accept ,hinr. He prowled up and down his room -like a beast in pain. It is hard to be young and alive from head to heel, and to be thus fettered by the impos- sibilities, to stand behind invisible bars be- yond which there is no passage, and to see the soul's desire borne, passionately weep- ing, away. His own impotence writhed .in him; like a twisted arrow in a wound. He was helpless, _helpless, helpless! He could do nothing. Yes. One -thing at least he could do. He could write to Inthia and tell her the whole truth from first to last. It was hu- miliating, but by contrast with the lie the truth looked heavenly- bright. He had been to Wattle, foolishly, wickedly to blame, but he Wee no inmate of the sty where Lady McCorquodale's fancy saw him, the vile place Inthia was to bit told of as his natural habitat. True to heif ! How could he be otherstise than true t4ier ?—all pur- ity, truth aryl goodness as she wan. Could he leave the innocent tenderness of her eyes and the sweet welcome of her hands le That was .a physical repuleion, a :eta - seating sickness, in his teary. Ile e -as faithful to her to the ecre; so fall lied that Edelity was no a virtve te eine Inthia -meant the Pox, and outside and be. yond her there was no woman in the world to him. It WM only whist he began to look for writing materials that he became aware of - he fact that he Etta wore his bat and Hewe a little mirthless chuckle elle discovery, and removed them. Then ne sat down, and began to write. He filled sheet after sheet with wild protesta- tions ef truth and love, and when he bad finished the letter, behold it meant nothing to his mind. All the blood and passion, all the heat and fervor, seemed to have stopped short at his #ager -tips. Not a tone of the wild kaleidoscopic splendors of his heart haii touched! the paper. It stared, blank, cold, and Meaningless. He tore it across and across and threw it into the fire -grate, and an anew, with the same chilling re- melt. He did not know how the night went by, Init, the noise of the fretful wind and the plaeh of the mournful rain outeide were part of him. Many and many a time afterwards the noises of the stormy night brought back that time so vividly that his heart ached at them with the memory of its own old pain. At length, when he seemed to have cast all the scot out of hie heart and brain, his though 'ran clear. He wrote a letter, brief and lhcid, in Which he told, as well and clearly as another knowing all the cir- cumstances Couldthave told it for him, the story of hie 'entanglement. He did not spare his own foolishness, but he closed with a humble hope that it was over, and that his lessen would last him for his life- time. He looked up, and lo! the day had. dawned onteide already. He drew up one ! of the blinds, and lookedout upon the street. A solitary policeman' paired, gleam- ing there. in his oilskin cape, and a fog rolled about the roofs of the houses and obscured t desolate si had gone t any great threw him fell stupid] The ent broom and but on the letters he Harry cam at the let table, and fingers, 11 writing. and he ku fate in his ope sured him safety thr. "My De word of th Lady MX that we a will make sure that You mus have patio marc. —Y e chimney -pots opposite. The ence weighed like lead, but he rough too muclaalrea,dy to have keenness of feeling left. He lf upon the sofa, and in a while asleep. ranee of the house porter with • dustpan failed to awake him, an's return with breakfast and made a judicious clatter, and out of his dreams. He looked s wearily as they lay upon the tanted them over with negligent til he caught sight of Inthia's treat shock went through him, w that he held the news of his own hands. He tore the en- , and the first line he read as - and slick warm conviction of ugh .him from head to heel, rest Hatry,—I do not believe a wicked and shameful story that rquodele has told me. She says e not to meet again, but that no difference to me, and I oss Will make no difference ia you. be braVe, dear, and hope and ce. I dare not, wait to write Ux;S ALWAYS, "INTEM." d that brave message a hundred hugged it, and kissed it again. onest, loyal heart; the pietless In spite of fog, rain, smoke, and wide winid beamed with sun - dashed iejoicingly into his bed - off his raiment with rolliokii soeg plunged into his tab, sans otn it like a radiant young giant. and sat down to breakfast in e eomplaceney. His inner man im now that he had forgotten to • ay before. He rang for more further supply of devilled kid - made an ituberant meal. What e about Lord Hounes and --Lady ale and IMrs.–Brotherick now? cions had no longer power to vex the whole family syndi- ong Kong, might go to o to Hong Kong for ve been hard put to it Ing man in Landon. he was preparing for • the city, when the him a letter addressed o him.. The rneaseeger ought it ivas instructed to waia se. Har y glauced first at the •nd found that the missive came n Heato . ✓ boy," it ran, "for Heaven's 1 round t me at once. Do not nt. It i a matter of the most quenee o yourself." g what t is might mean, Harry in frout f the messenger, and utes fro his receipt of the let- mself in aptain Heaton's pres- orning Aumage of the worthy gay and rilliant. He was in a owered d wore He had He kis times, and Oh! the h creature! , wind, the shine. II room, tore scraps of emerged f He dime an exquisi reminded dine the . eggs, and ney, and did he ea McCorquo Their susp him. He cate migh Hong Kon him. You to find a h In this j his daily house port in a hand who had b for a respo signatnre, from Capta. "My de –sake come lose a mom urgent con Wonder] marched o in three mi sterefound h ence.e The _ captaanovas gorgeously ing-gown, a scarlet fez. early, and brandy end ing, all thin was a youn but in the out in the creased into accentuated visitor a similar re which he as hitns offer being declined, uneasy silen e for a n 'moustache. To his v the air of man- communicat on to ma make it. "Do you know, Heaton, sud mind to hay "do you k ang that go to II , might would Ir ppier yo yfui moo ouniey ✓ broegh nknown nd embroidered dress- urkish slippers and a aegun his day's work was already engaged over a soda and a cigar. In the even- s considered, Ca,ptain Heaton ish-looki orning ti bulbous thick fol. -crows' enly, as the unp easant business over, o'w. ray 4ear boy. that you've g man for his years, e raffish traits peeped underlid of his eyes, s, and in the strongly eet. He offered his eshment to that of .If partaking, and his he sat in apparently oment, tugging at his sitor's mind he bore ho has an unpleasant • e, and is unwilling to y dear boy," said if he had made up his , M1 • • ' THE HURON EXPOSITOR. got yourseli into a devil o a mess?" "Upon my mord, I don" returned Har- ry. "Do you?" "I shall be deuced glad. if I don't," said the captain. "You don't mean to tell me that you don't know wha you've done?" "Now," said young 'S, rynne, lifting his eyes and looking square] at the captain's face, "to tell you the trut 1, Heaton, I had enough of that sort of tliing yesterday to satisfy me for the rest of y life. If I have done anything, be good en ugh to tell me at once what it is. If it concerns you in any way I will give you • •hatever explana- tion you may have a righ to." "If he has done anythin !" repeated the captain, as if appealing t some invisible third person who knew all about it and was beund to share hi own friendly Sorrow. Harry kept a resolute g.od temper. , "I have done many thinLs in my life," he said. "All sorts of things good, bad, and indifferent. What is the one thing you want to speak about?" "Well, upon my word," said Heaton, "you take it coolly." "I try to," the young m n answered. Captain Heaton threw tie theme clean away with both hands, anc looked mourn- fully resigned. "You—you don't know? 1 You—you don't know?" he said, a moment' later, knitting his eyebrows in inquiring Wonderment, and leaning across the table towards his com- panion. "Confound it all, man!" �ried the badger- ed youth, "I have told you already that I don't know. Do you know? Upon my soul I think the whole world' going mad to- gether." "Oh!" said the captain, with an air of injured- friendship, "if youalr that tone, Wynne, it's no affair of mi e. "Whew affair Le it?" Har v asked. . "Lied!" said Heaton, 'J should say its . yours, if it's anybody's; bu if you choose not to know anything abo t it, and to re- sent a friendly interventio you may go to the deuce your own wa , by Jove, and there's an end to it." "Will you tell tne" aske1 Harry, rising, "what it, is you want to ta k about?" "Oh! well, if you insist o knowing noth- ing at all about it," return d the captain, •ini try to refresh your me e ory. Did you ever meet one Butterfield a jeweller, in Conduit Street?" "Yea," said Harry. "What about him?" "Did you buy over two t! outland pounds worth of jewellery from hi1 ?" , "I did. And what of t at?" "Will you tell me what ou did with the jewellery?" There was a pause for a during which Harry roger ed nthde or ptraino, with a glowing air of Bart:lute humor. "I'm glad to see you turn ng evangelist," • he said, rather griinly. '11 suppose you know Miss Tearsheet's way as well as any- body. You ought to be experimentally • qualified to denounce them. I took a lecture from Lord Hinnies and Lady Mc- Corquodale on the subject yesterday; but I'll be hanged if I'll stand she from you." It was the captain's teirn to look be- wildered. ! • "I don't a bit know what you are talking it beginning to about," he said, "and unles you're an nn - commonly good actor, I' think you don't know ether. Here's a plain queetion, and you can give it a plain answer if you like. Did you pawn those diamonde? . "Of course I did. That* what I bought them for." i "Well, good Lord," : said Heaton, staring at him, with ; a beautifully deceptive aspect of aatanishment, "he confesses it! He talks 'about it as if it were the most ordinary transaction in life! Do you know what you've done?" "I have told you what I, have done," "No, you haven't. my boy," Heaton re- sponded, in a tene of al it fatherly sad- ness, "but I'll tall you w at you've done. You've committed a fraud in the eye of the law. You have laid yours If open to arrest and trial cm a charge of rand, and if the ease is proved amyou confe a it you :toy get. two years, with or witho t hard labor, ac- cording to the judge's fancv." The speech was not a 1 ng one, but be- fore it carne to aa end Ha ry had dropped back into his ohair, starin 1 at the captain with a fees so horror-strici- en that it cost even that praetised gentle 44 • . a momeatary twinge. Heaton poure, out a glass of , brandy and pushed itover to him. "Drink that," he said, "and pull yourself ! together. My peer bey! by the dickens didn't you come to me? 'd have pawned my last shirt rather than you in a mess like this. Why didn't ye ask somebody? Any man of the world • mild have told you." "I did iton Hurrip's advice," gasped Harry. "I did it to pay m." "On Hump's advice! heieked Heaton. "Nonsense!" "He was in an awful ,4 ess. He wanted ' the money. He had a b. 1 of mine. Yon know all about that. '';e said it was a matter of public bankrup cy for both of us, and he sent me to Butter eld." "The fool!" cried the ca tain, with every appearance of rage and amazement. "I wonder if that's why he cleared out lard night? Butterfield's furi we 1 met, a man who saw him yesterday a ter your aunt had /eft him and he was vowi g vengeance. He sweara that you gave hi distinctly to un- derstand that you wanted the jewels for a lady, and the first thing e'll do this moru- ing will be to get out a .8 milieus. There's nothiat for it, my dear oy, but to go to Yo! friends, and rake th money together somehow." "My friends," said the victim miserably, , "I haven't any friends except for my male Seaforth, and h 's got next to nothing. I'd rather suffe anything than go 11.2• "hYinoit'''ve got one frie d, my boy," said the captain sympathetic Ily. "I'm in a deucedly tight corner yself. Half the club owe me money, an I can't stir it. Peter Heaton's everybody s mug. But I've I think I can wo. Call it five, on that, Wynne, eld with it. I'm go underground • at captain rose, ndly enthusiasm his hand with a • t unsuspecting his hand hard. y boy. Butter - really been had nt fellow comers got a loose three hundred rake in another or even hundred. You can recko if you can square Butter not the man to see a chum if, I can help it." With that the benevol in so fine a flush of fri that young Wynne grasp hot moisture in his hon eyes. The captain wrung "We must do our best, field's very hard, but he's so often that even if a de across him he gets taken for a sharp. Run It would be hor- re made public." the unsuspicious ratitude, "Pll over and see him at once, rible if a thing like this w "Heaton, old boy," said greenhorn, flushing with never forget this. You'r a good fellow. Heaton. I—Pm-1n enormously obliged to rm." With that he went awa palpitating, in That gentleman customer wait - a quarter of an &IV frosty and, his hands no th a soft, pro - his chin, hut level with his search of Mr. Butterfield. had not yet arrived, but hi ed for him, and in less thar hour he.canie. He was mi dignified, and- in rubbing` longer smoothed them w pitiatory motion beneath 1 wrung them heartily on , watch chain. '• "I desire to hold no leMr. Wynne," said Butter kance from his visitor, wi reproving dignity. "The hands of my solicitor. I course --its proper and befi • Poor Harry urged the ca •dred pounds, and the two in hand, but Butterfield wa as deaf to persuasion as an tercourse with , eld, gazing as- h a sclemn and atter is in the will take its ting course." tain's five hun- undred he had • obdurate, and dder. CHAPTER II. Between eight and nine o' lock that night the continental mail flying est through the dark between London and Dover e.arriad 1 REAL ESTATE FOR SALE. 131711ADLNee LOTS F'OR SieLE.—The undererigned has a number of fine building Lott,' on Goderteh and Janice Streets for sale, at low prices. For par- ticulars apply to lh D. WILSON. • 908 1 _10UsiiittlEareedtReogALeEe. —n Ego cSoarl no e rthatof!Tiol ehane a natn1 yds puling Streets, formeily occupied by A. E. Murray. there is bard and soft water and a splendid garden. Will be sold oheap and on cagy terms as the owner has removed to Kincardine. Apply to W. 0. DUFF. 1259x12 tiARM FOR SALE OR TO RENT IN THE TOWN - J2 stela OF TURNBERRY.—A goad 100 acre farm, 60 acres cleared, good frame house. Rent can be paid in improvements on the place. Also, wented to let, the contract for the cuttirg and drawing of saw loge end cord wood off 60 to 75 acres of land in above township. Apply to GEO. THOMPSON, Box 126, Wingbarn. 1260 tf. TIA1111 FOR SALE.—For sale that splendid krnd X conveniently situated farm adjoining' the lb, lage of Brumfield, and owned and occupied by the undersigned. There are 116 &ate, of which nectrly ell is cleared and in a high state of cultivation 2n all but about 20 acres in grass. Good buildings and plenty of water. It adjoins the Bruc,efield Station of the Grand Trunk Railway. Will be sold cheap and on easy teime. Apply on the pi erniees or to Brice4 field P. 0. P. McGREGOR. 1268 t. HOUSE FOR SALE OR TO BENT.—For Bale or to Rent, the property on West Godeitich street, adjoiuing Seaforth, formerly owned and Oa - +=pied by Mr. Win. Copp. There is a comforteble frame house containing 9 rooms and a splendid stone cellar under the whole house, also a woodshed, hard and soft water, and a good stable and other eute bnildings. Also a splendid garden et one acre. Will be sold cheap or rented en reasonable terms, Apply te A. STRONG, or JAMES MeMICHAEL 2,44 eLeARef. IN STANLEY FOR SALE.—For X cheap, the East half of Lot 20, Bayfield Read, Stanley, containing 64 acres, of which 62 acres are cleared and in a good state of oultivatioe. The bal- ance is well timbered with hardwood. There are) good buildinge, a hearing orchard and plenty of water. It is within half a mile of the Village of Varna end three miles from Brucefield station.] Possosaion at any time. This is a rare chance to buy a first -class farm pleasantly situated. Apply to ARTHUR FORBES, Seaforth. 114401 TIARM FOR SALE.—Lot 12, in the 6tk Coneeselion J' of the Towoship of Stanley, County of Huron, the property of tho late Mrs. Cathatine Mitchell : 100 acres, 80 acres cleared and free from stumps, end in a good state of cultivation; 20 acres of bosh lend well wooded with hardwood timber. The farni is well watered, and has on it a good fruit beering or- chard. There are erected a frame dwelling house barns and outhouses. Terme of payment can be made easy; a fair proportion of the purchase money may remain on mortgage at a lois rate of interest., For further terms and particulars apply to the tin-' illersigned. MANNING & SCOTT, Barristers. 4ite, Vinton. 12694 1 MlAlthl Fait SALE CHEAP.—The farm of 100 X acres on the 9th eoncessiou of Mo-Killop, be- longing to Thompeon Morrison, who is residing In Dakota and does not intend to return, is of- fered for sale very cheap. Eighty acres are • cleared and the balance good hardwood, ineple and rick elm, within 6} mile* of Seaforth and, within f of a mile of school house, Methodist and Presbyterian Churches, stores, wills, blOck- smithing and wagon making shop, post office, Aro., good buildings and water for cattle, and good gravel road's° any part of the township, taxes the lowest of any of the bordering towruihips. A mortgage will be taken for $3,009 at 6 per cent. Apply to JOHN C. MORRISON, Winthrop P. 0., Ont. 117661 "ARM FOR SALE.—The underaigned offers for fut & Mundell, etohnattvhaelusittblhe fewarniceasforrnione,r1Tuy ockwnerseduabityb.,Mirt. contains 150 acres, of which 116 sores are cleared end, In splendid condition. It is well fenced and fairley wet' drained. The buildings are first-class, a good brick house althost new, large frame barns vfith "tame stoblieg underneath, suitable tor feeding sttlek.1 There is also a large silo on the premises, capable of holding all the cora ensilege grown on 10 or 12 seem. This is one of the finest farms In the County' of Huron, sad wit be sold at a moderate price and on easy terms of payment. The farm is well adept - ed for mixed farming, producing fine crops of grain, and is also well adapted for graeing. For further particulars apply to the undersigned. D. D. 'WIL- SON, Seaforth Ontario. 1209 UAW& FOR SALE OR TO RENr.—For sale or to r rent that very deeirable farm on the Mill Read, Tuckersmith, owned by the undersigned. It tains 97 sores, nearly all cleared and in a high state of cultivation. There is a comfortable brick house and good outbuildings. There is an orchard hnd plenty of good water. It is within a mile and s hall of Seaforth on a splendid road all the year round end convenient to school. It hi a most desirable proper- ty and will be sold cheapor rented on favoreble SUS terms. PO81013 ei given n March, Apply to the undersigned or at Ton Exroseroa Office, Seaforth. ROBERT FANSON, Seaforth. 1262 t. MIARIdel FOR SALL—For sale, *parts of Lot e 46 au and 47, on the Dit Concealion of Turnbe ry, containing 190 acres, about 98 acres cleared and the balance uncoiled herdwood bush. Largo bank harn and shed, and stone stabling, and good frame house with kitchen and weodahed "attached. There is a good orchard and a branch of the River Maitland running through one corner. It is nearly all seeded to grass, and is one of the best stock farms in the county. Also the 60 acre farm occupied by thenuf dersigned, adjoining the Village of Bluevale, all cleared, good building', and in first-class state of cultivation. It is a neat and comfortable place. Most of the purchase money can remain on mortgage at a reasooable rate of interest. Apply to HUGH ROSS, Bluevale. 1262-tf W. SOMERVILLE,. , Agent G, N. W. Telegraph and Can- adian Express Companies, SEAFORTH, - - ONTJ Telegraphic connections everywhere. Low rates en money package', and remitters guaranteed against kos. The nonvenianee and safety of our =may order eervice is attracting the attention of and pleas; ine many patrons. Special rates on produce and poultry. Toronto train service only 4} benne, Mon+ real hours. 1228 ' 1 PUBLIC NOTICE. The undersigned while thanking their numerous customers for their liberal patronage in the prat, would say that they are in a position to supply eee- thing in the BUILDING LINE, —SUCH AS— Shingles, Laths, Doors —ALSO and Sas*, Mouldings • of all Kinds Always on hand. Cietern Tanks and Water Troughs CLUFF & BENNETT. • N. B.—Parties indebted to the above farm Wil please settle at once. 1262-13 • make to order. INT M "VT S 21 0 I?, - —IN ----- LEAD BU R Y. HELLO! HELL) WHAT NOW? A new Store in Leadbury, going to sell at cost fo SIXTY DAYS FOR CASH. Having opened a general store I am going to ee I a cost for Sixty Days for Cash. Call and see price and I am stile to sell to you. 1261 •J. T. McNAMARA, Leadbury, Ont. The McKillop Mutual Filre Insurance Company. FARM AND ISOLATED TOWil PROPERTY ONLY INSURED. Orricom D. Ross, Presidentt Clinton P. 0.•, W, Shannon, Secy-Treas., Seaforth P. 0.; John liannahi Manager, Seaforth P. 0, Jae. Broadfoot, Se=1)es. Alex. Gardiner, Lead - bury • Gabriel Elliott. Clinton ; Geo. Watt, Harloek Joseph Evans, Beechwood; M. Hurdle, Soafoith Thos. Garbutt, Clinton. AGENTS. . Thos. Neilans, Harlot*; R,obt. IfeMillan, Seaforth; S. Carnochan, Seaforth. John O'Sullivan and Geo Nordic, Auditors. Parties desirous to effect nneuences or teen sant other boldness will be promptly attended to on application to any of theabeve officers, addressed to their respective post offices. nee = • Oar TS TLE. 41.1•1111111111131.1111MINIIIIIIIIIMINMEMM111.118.1111011.1110144' FEBIttIABY 26, 1892: USE IT FOR Difficulty of Breathing, Tightness of the Chest, Wasting Away of Flesh Throat Troubles, Consumption Bronchitis, Weak Lungs, Asthma, Cough Catarrh Colds. • DR. T. A. SL CUM'S Oxygenized Emulsion of Pure o Liver For Sale by all Druggists. LABORATORY, TORONTO, Ontario GOLDEN LION, SEAFORTH, FALL OF 1891. We have received ex steamships Mongolian, Alcides and Corean, a large portion of our Fall Intpartations, which we hope to have complete witk goods, ex Canada and Montevidean, in a few days. Goods—newest styles and good value. R. In the Surrogate Court of the County of Huron IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF FRANCIS • HENDEItSON, DECEASED. A II persons having claims against the estate of • Francis Henderson late of the town of Seaforth, Book peddler deceased, who died on or about the 22nd day of January 1892 are required on or before the 4th day of March, 1892, to send to the under- sigued Solicitor for the Exeeutore of the estate, full particulars of their claims and the securities (if any) held by them, duty verified by affidavit. After the said date the Executors will proceed to distribute the estate among the parties entitled, baying reference only to the claims of which they shall have received patios, and after such distribution they will not be responsible for any part of the estate to any creditor, of whose claim they shall not have received notice at the time of such distribution, This notice is given pursuant to the Statute in that behalf. F. HOLME- STED, Solicitor for the Executors. Seaforth, Febru- ary 3rd, 1892. 1261-4 In the Surrogate Court of the County - of Huron. IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF HENRY MASON, DECEASED. All persons having any claim against the estate of Henry Masora- late of the Township of Tucker - smith, Deceased, who died on or about the 2nd day of January, 1892, are required on or before the 44h day of March, 18e2, to send to the under- signed Solicitor for the Adminiertrators of the estate, full particulars of their define and the securities (if any) held by them, duly verified by affidavit. After the said date the Administrators will proceed to distribute the estate omortg the parties entitled, having reference only to the claims of which they J A IVI 1 E S 0 N . gha ittiontlaeryawrill no; iee or:benortesc,amigfteieaforransuch r y rt o*); •estate to any creditor ofi)whsose claim they shill not have received notice at the time of such distribution. This notice ie given pursuant to the statute in that behalf. F. HOLMFATED, Solicitor for the Admin. istratore. Seaforth, February Std, 1892. 1-1604 DCYCI-33T_JM *ACTION PRESSURE and SUCTION WASHER. Between 4,000 and 5,000 already Manufactured are sold. The Great Mystery Solved. It is an acknowledged fact, that this Washer has no equal, it is one of the wonders of the age, for there are ,actually two machines in one. Fourteen Shirts can be washeld at a time, seven on each side. This machine has the hand principle with a leverage power. The old way is acknowledged by all very destructive to the clothes. The finest fabrics can be washed with this machine without the least injury to the goods. The machine will pay for itself by the saving of the goods, ais there is no rubbing; it is all done by pressure and suction. When the handles are drawn to the left, the right side closes, thus forcing the suds throu'r the clothes, and • when the handles are drawn to the other side the opera,t on is reversed,,and the clothes on the right side are again filling with water. Another great feature of this machine is, that it holds the clothes together throughout the washing process, and for each seven movements of the handles, the clothes make one revolution. Conse- •quently, there are five different operations made with one motion of the handles. It does its work equal to,if not better, than any hand work in a very short time, and it is also easy to eperate. A child of fourteen can do the washing. • MULLETT & JACKSON, Seaforth • WHITNEY'S OLD STAN°, • - Are the sole agents for Seaforth and vicinity for this excellent machine. Sample machines airways on hand. Call and see them, whether you want to buy or not. HERE WE ARE AGAIN. We have bought THOMAS DALY'S stock, comprising Groceries, Crockery and Glassware, ANT) HAVE ASSORTED IT UP WITH A Fine new selection of goods, and we are sell- ing a0 at Greatly Reduced Prices. We will aIso carry on the PORK PACKING much more extensively this season than last, and pay the HIGHEST CASH PRICE FOR ALL DRESSED HOGS. Many thanks for the people's liberal patronage in the past, and again we solicit a call. Our store is situated in the centre of the town, facing John street. R. BEATTIE & CO., Seaforth. tar We have secured MR. D. DORRANCE, one of the oldest and most experienced packers in the Dominion, and customers can depend on getting a first-class article. In the Surrogate Court of the County of Huron. IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF THOMAS WALLACE DUNCAN, DECEASED. All persons having any claim against the estate of Thomas Wallace Duncan, late of the Town of Seaforth, Deceased, who died on or about the 17th day of January,11192,are required on or before the 4th day of March. 1892, to send to the undersigned Soli- citor for the Executors -of the estate, full particolim of their claims and the securities (if any) held by them, duly verified by affidavit. After the said dste the Executors will prooeed to distribute the estate among the partial entitled, having reference only to the claims of which they shall have received notice, and after -ow'h distribution they will not be respon- sible for any part of the estate to any creditor of whose ols,itn they shall not have received notice at the time of such distribution. This notice is given pursuant to the statute in that behalf. F. HOLME- STED, Solicitor fax Executors. Seaforth, February 3rd, 1892. - 1260-4 Notice to Debtors. IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF THOMAS W. DUNCAN, DECEASED. A 11 persons indebted to the late Thomas W. Dun- can are required to pay the amount of their indebtedness forthwith to she undersigned Solicitor for the Executers of tbe will of said Thornms W. Duncan. All debts remaining unsettled by the 4th of March, 1892, will be placed in court for suit. 1?„ HOLMESTED, Solicitor for Executme. Seaforth, Febrrtary 3rd, 1822. 1260-4 FARMS FOR SALE. TOWNSHIP OF MoKILLOP. Lot 10, on 9th eoneeesion, 100 scree. Wtet half 7 on 10th meccas:ion, 50 acres. TOWNSHIP OF MORRIS. South half 21 on 6th concession, 100 acres. TOWNSHIP OF GREY Lott 1 and 1200 13th conceesion 200 acre TOWNSHIP 01' TUCHERSkITH. Lot 32 on 3rd concession la R. S. 100 scree. For terms &e., apply to the underefined. F. HOLhiESTED, 1197 tf: V Barrister &c., Seaforth- DUNN'S BAKINC POWDER THECOOKSBESTFRIEND LARGEST SALE IN CANADA. HAND -MADE Boots and Shoes D. McINTYRE Has on hand a large number of Booteond Sham of his own make, beet materisl and Warranted to give Satisfaction. If you want your feet kept thy come and get a pair of our boots, which will be sold 0 HEAP FOR OASH. Repairing promptly attended to. All kinds of Boots and Shoes made to order. All parties who have not paid their accounts for last year will please call and settle up. 1162 D. M el/TYRE, Seaforth. Shareholders' eeting. A meeting of the shard) dere of the liippen Public Hall Company will be b id in the Public Hall in the village of Kipper" on Friday evening, February 24th, 1892 at 7.80 p, m,, for the •prtrpose 01 electing officers and transacting general business, W. 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